Top 10 Furnace Builder Appoints Manufacturing Manager
Earlier this year "The Monty Heat Treat News" published a ranking of the 10 largest North American furnace builders, a list which can be found at https://themonty.com/10-largest-north-american-heat-treat-furnace-builders/ In second place on this list you will find AFC-Holcroft of Wixom, Michigan....
Tim Donofrio, VP Can-Eng Furnaces International
Our first news item for Thursday March 27, 2024 mentioned two of of the 10 largest North American furnace builders as ranked by "The Monty Heat Treat News". It is an unusual occurrence that this news item also concerns one of the largest furnace builders in North America-read on; "CAN-ENG FURNACES...
Used Furnace And Equipment Listings
Largest Front Loading Vacuum Furnace Ever?
Over the course of the past few months we have watched with interest the construction progress on what furnace builder Signature Vacuum claims is the largest front loading vacuum furnace ever-our last report can be found at https://themonty.com/largest-horizontal-vacuum-furnace-ever/ This is the...
Nitrided Titanium Alloys vs Nitrided Stainless Steels Authored by Dr. Edward Rolinski
Applications of stainless steel (SS) have been known for over a hundred years. Enhancing tribological properties of these alloys can be achieved by using nitriding [1, 2]. However, the nitriding process has limited abilities to improve corrosion resistance of SS unless it is used at very low...
The Monty Exclusive Articles
Heat Treat Calendar 2024
"The Monty Heat Treat News" promised you the most up to date list of the major heat treat events of 2024 and that is exactly what we are delivering. This updated list includes the major event for the Polish heat...
11 Largest Captive Heat Treats, North America-An Industry Exclusive
11 Largest Captive Heat Treats, North America-An Industry ExclusiveIn 2022 “The Monty Heat Treat News” published a heat treatment industry exclusive, a list of the “10 Largest Single Location Captive Heat Treats” in...
Motorcycle Manufacturer to Add Nitriding
"Guangdong Tayo Motorcycle Technology Co. Ltd., a renowned Chinese manufacturer of motorcycles and bicycles, has taken a significant step towards sustainability and growth by investing in a nitriding/nitrocarburizing system for its new production facility in Jiangmen City, in southern China’s...
Top Heat Treat News Week of March 18th 2024
Each week "The Monty Heat Treat News" tracks all of our news items on social media (LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter) and ranks them according to the amount of interest generated. For the week starting March 18th, 2024 these were are top 3 news items (incidentally in total our posts on LinkedIn...
Aalberts Netherlands Continues to Invest
Aalberts Surface Technologies based in the Netherlands is ranked by "The Monty Heat Treat News" as the second largest commercial heat treater both in Europe and North America and regularly makes "The Monty" for their various investments-today we have this update about their facility in Eindhoven,...
Vacuum Heat Treating Mexico
As business investment in the Mexican manufacturing sector continues to grow by leaps and bounds heat treatment in the country both captive and commercial also continues to grow. We will qualify this statement by adding that the vast bulk of this heat treatment is in "atmosphere" heat treating and...
Largest Vacuum Furnace in Turkey Commissioned
December of 2023 "The Monty Heat Treat News" posted a news item about the installation of what has been promoted as the largest vacuum furnace in Turkey, this item can be found below. We can now finish this story by adding that the furnace has entered production and that it has working dimensions of...
Dana India Adding Heat Treatment Capacity
Based in Maumee, Ohio, USA Dana Incorporated is an American supplier of axles, driveshafts, transmissions, and electrodynamic, thermal, sealing, and digital equipment for conventional, hybrid, and electric-powered vehicles. The company's products and services are aimed at the light vehicle,...
Ipsen Launches a Cutting-Edge Digital Platform, “Ipsen Connect,” to Streamline Customers’ Operations
Ipsen prioritizes customer enablement with a new digital gateway, Ipsen Connect. The customer service portal simplifies access to essential resources, including order history, service requests, and furnace documentation. Key features of Ipsen Connect include: • Convenient part management: Request or...
New Heat Treat For Tennessee, USA
It has been announced that Surgoinsville, TN, USA will be the future home of a new commercial heat treat by the name of Vulcan Thermal. Vulcan has declared that they will be investing $5 million USD in a 15,000 square foot facility at 390 Phipps Bend Road in Surgoinsville which will create about 30...
Can Eng Announces Partnership
EVERGREEN KILN TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, located in Niagara Falls, USA SUZHOU KILNPARTNER Mechanical Technology Co., Ltd., located in China are pleased to officially announce the strategic partnership between both parties. This Partnership was developed to service and support the growing demands of the...
USA Heat Treat Rep Firm Adds Partner
In North America the vast bulk of capital goods sales in the heat treatment industry are done through independent sales representative organizations (this would include furnace sales, alloy, controls and coolers to name just a few). One of the more successful organizations is MetalPro Resources...
Voestalpine Fastening Systems Adds More Heat Treat Capacity
"Voestalpine Fastening Systems, a supplier to the railway industry, has ordered a technological line consisting of two CaseMaster furnaces, three tempering furnaces and two washers. The line will be utilized for hardening processes of steel parts used in railway rolling stock. This is the first...
Furnace Builders Unite to Offer Engineering Services?
"The Monty Heat Treat News" has learned that two manufacturers of new thermal processing systems are in serious discussions to jointly offer engineering services not just to the heat treatment industry but all industry around the world. McLaughlin Furnace Group of Avilla, Indiana and ION HEAT...
South American Heat Treater Adds Nitriding
"Sudosilo S.A., a leading commercial heat treatment service provider in South America, is bringing premier nitriding to the Argentine industrial sector with the recent commissioning of a Nitrex turnkey installation. This newly operational nitriding system, acknowledged as a best-in-class nitriding...
Solar Atmospheres of Western PA Adds 3rd Car Bottom Air Furnace
"Solar Atmospheres of Western PA recently commissioned their third car bottom air furnace manufactured by Heat Treat Equipment Inc. This large Class 2 air furnace with a maximum operating temperature of 1350°F measures 60” wide x 38” high x 168” deep. The newly installed equipment joins two other...
Gas Pressure v/s Velocity in Quench Rate Written by Robert Hill & Gregory Scheuring of Solar Atmospheres
Vacuum Gas Cooling – Is Pressure or Velocity Most Important? (Part 1) Introduction: There is an age-old adage that exists in the heat treating world. That supposition states that “the smaller the vacuum furnace, the faster it will quench.” Our study compared the cooling rates of two distinctly sized...
Bodycote “Nails It”
There should be a lot of smiling faces at commercial heat treater Bodycote this week as a result of the release of their 2023 full year financial results this past Friday. While we are providing this brief summary below the entire report can be found at https://www.bodycote.com/ To find out how...